@scottalanmiller said in Xen Orchestra - hung task - alert to a log and continue:

It says that the process was blocked, so that implies that no it cannot continue.

Thank you.... haha

You all know what sh-bang really is....

Youtube Video

@IRJ said in I'd like to see a noob CentOS and Ubuntu tutorial on security:

I'd like to see a tutorial on securing new CENTOS and Ubuntu servers out of the box. Is that something you could do @scottalanmiller ?

I'll see what I can do. But looks like some good resources provided already. Would be good to have info here too, though.

@Carnival-Boy said

I see to recall @scottalanmiller saying recently that you don't need to encrypt a laptop hard drive because you should never store anything on it - everything should be cloud only. I'm kinda on board with that, but I don't understand how you do that. Like, he recommends LibreOffice (I think?) but how do you open a Word document stored in Sharepoint in LibreOffice without downloading it onto the laptop first?

I think part of the completion of that thought is to only use data in applications that are cloud-data-aware.

So, you would only use Office documents. (For example, I asked "what about text files", and he said, just put it in Word.)

You would only put pictures and things in a picture-aware app (such as Flickr.)

Adobe stuff in Adobe apps.

Anything that still falls through the cracks you'd have to download locally.

At least I think that is the drift...

6 of one. It accomplishes what you wanted without having to go to each system and do it manually. Is it a full-on GPO setting? No. Will it work? Probably.

@Jason said in need program deployment (GPO) suggestion... Not how to but more of a best practice.:

@Dashrender said

Unless you're changing the computers as well, this won't work. At this level RDS is licensed to the machine/device. So if it's moving PC to PC, he'd need 50 RDS CALs, plus the server license. 40 more Adobe Acrobat licenses would be cheaper.

Not sure where you get that. RDS is device or user. The license server for RDS has no cost. RDS CALs can be reassigned once expired.

RDS user CALs are about $100. Adobe Acrobat pro is about $500 each

It must be a different User CAL that can't be purchased under 200 or 250 users. I can't find anything in a fast search about this specifically.

True the RDS license server is free, but the Windows Server you'll install Adobe Acrobat on isn't - it's $800+.

As for reassigning the licenses:
In Per User or Per Device mode, a separate TS CAL is required for each user or device that accesses or uses the server software on any server. You may reassign a TS CAL from one device to another device, or from one user to another user, provided the reassignment is made either (a) permanently away from the one device or user or (b) temporarily to accommodate the use of the TS CAL either by a loaner device, while a permanent device is out of service, or by a temporary worker, while a regular employee is absent.
Moving these licenses monthly surely wouldn't be considered permanently away. On top of that, even if it was OK to move them, the licenses only release from their previous user after 60 days of non use, so the monthly change would require at least two full sets of RDS licenses, and the change would take place on the 61 day, not the 60th.

Holy hell, Adobe Acrobat normal is $299. Damn that's expensive! Let alone Pro.

Here's a cool PS script I found that creates a nice htm file of the output.

https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Generate-a-Report-of-a33cde56

@Dashrender said in Security Of Cloud Shared Links:

The entry itself can't output it self.. you have to use DNS to get the list, just like HTTP can't generate a list of items in a specified folder, the Web Server has to product a file (probably on the fly) for HTTP to deliver.

Again, this really isn't getting us anywhere - it's just weird.

The entry can't, but the entry itself is a link. What many DNS servers do is automatically produce all output for a domain as links. So you query them and you get a list of the links. This is how CloudFlare, for example, polls another DNS server to automate DNS movement.

@travisdh1 said in Any providers ever WISP'd?:

@marcinozga said in Any providers ever WISP'd?:

@travisdh1 said in Any providers ever WISP'd?:

@marcinozga said in Any providers ever WISP'd?:

@travisdh1 said in Any providers ever WISP'd?:

@marcinozga That's going to let you provide service, sure. They were paying $5 for the microwave based wireless radios they were using in the mid 2000s. That side of it hasn't really changed that much price wise in a long time.

Where are you getting the backbone connection?

From your local ISP. Once you get into the area of negotiations with major backbone providers you usually get out, that's whole different league.

If you plan to extend the service beyond what the local ISP has built out, then maybe you could do it, but it really limits the market you have available. Think of it this way, you are a potential competitor to the ISP, are they going to give you a good deal?

They don't have to. You just buy the service from them, then re-sell it. We were buying DSL lines at the regular business plan prices. I think overall we had close to 1000 customers in 30k city.

Apparently it's different where you are. Around here even the business lines often have clauses that prevent you from reselling the service 😞

Not surprised - a resold line has a higher likeliness of running at or near full capacity. The sad fact is that ISPs almost always oversell their bandwidth, they have expectations of something like 30% usage over the 24 hour day.

LOL, good to have the solutions catalogued, you just never know.

I've run dcdiag, everything comes back showing healthy.

I don't want to go the route of the registry fix because I've saw this in multiple domains now, and it doesn't fix the root of the cause, it is just a work around and writing off the situation as "it's just a corrupt profile". Well I don't see how it can be corrupt when it's never been on that server before...

Seems like too common of a problem, and has been happening for years for there not to be more coverage on the matter than just deleting it from ProfileList.

@DustinB3403 said in What is Best Practice.... topics keep springing up over and over and over:

Correct, if you had 6 drives, you wouldn't create a RAID1 of two of the drives and then a RAID10 of the remaining 4. (horrible example but the concept works)

You'd just make an OBR10. When you build any VM's you're creating dedicated vDisk for them and the entire set is protected by OBR10.

http://www.smbitjournal.com/2012/11/one-big-raid-10-a-new-standard-in-server-storage/

I am using their Subsidiary called KimSufi. I've been pleased with them so far!

We have been messing around with Hyper-V on our workstations .
I use Veeam endpoint backup and my boss uses Hyperoo (free).

I haven't heard any complaints.
http://www.hyperoo.net/
http://www.hyperoo.net/free-edition

(interesting note. In spite of their name an logo, they list their contact address as Belfast, Northern Ireland)

yeah, i've done that. weird that i dont have it. suck

@JaredBusch said in FreePBX on VPS:

@Dashrender said in FreePBX on VPS:

The last time I stood one of these things up I spent around $1000 on add-ons... But those were one time fees, not monthly.

For a larger office, I would expect that, but for a basic small office, spending more than $100-$200 on pro modules likely is a misunderstanding of the needs.

Agreed.

@travisdh1 said in Linux skills are hard to find:

@scottalanmiller said in Linux skills are hard to find:

@travisdh1 said in Linux skills are hard to find:

Apropos is yet another new thing @scottalanmiller takes for granted I've never heard of before. Looks much more efficient than using find just to look for a program that doesn't happen to be in $PATH!

LOL it was taught for first time computer users when they took "intro to your computer lab" one hour course at college in 1994. Not an admin tool, just a general user tool on UNIX systems.

My Intro to UNIX course never mentioned it I don't think. Learned a lot more in a couple of 1 week training sessions at SGI than 2 years of college... not that anyone is going to be surprised by that.

It was taught to the kids who were learning how to use UNIX for word processing and email back in the day.

@Carnival-Boy said in Creating training videos for users:

The main problem with hosting on YouTube is you get adverts and suggestions of other videos, which doesn't look too professional. For example, at the end of your excellent AetherStore video I got a My Little Pony video suggested (disclaimer: my daughter uses my Google account).

Ah, you only get the adverts if you use other's content. Music/visual, etc. Or if you are trying to make money from advertising.

Suggested videos, you used to be able to turn that off per clip, I think Google forced it back on for everyone annoyingly, I'm sure their view counts across the site went up though.

I've now got a Vimeo account as video is something I want to do more with but I'm really annoyed that after paying for the upgrade, they had 3 periods of downtime in the magical forest within the week. Youtube with their suggested videos, no downtime.

@iroal said in Why It Is Not a Backup Unless It Is Decoupled:

It was a Hoax

http://www.infoworld.com/article/3057676/it-management/that-man-who-deleted-his-entire-company-with-a-line-of-code-it-was-a-hoax.html#tk.rss_all

Yup, that's what the thread has been discussing 🙂

@BRRABill said in Wordpress multisite migration issue: Solved:

@Ambarishrh

This looks like per site pricing, backupbuddy or Updraft especially has unlimited site option

Does it? I looked at the pricing for Updraft and it said it was a site licence, with options available for unlimited.

Yes, was talking about the unlimited site option- Dev

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